1. 21st Century School Design
Building and Designing Schools
For Tomorrow’s CMCSS!

2. Current Issues in K-12 School Design
Increase in community centered schools
Perceived increase in school violence as well as increased security
High tech-multi-media environments
Energy efficiency
Sustainability
Instructional flexibility
Designs for a variety of learning: small group, individual, large group, hands-on, independent research

3. Increase in Community Centered Schools
School design that allows for better access restrictions to areas not needed for public use in the evenings
Determining how schools can be 24 hour facilities or multi-use facilities for community and education

4. High tech-multi-media environments
Classroom design that maximizes use of the kind of technology used at Barkers Mill through “outside the box” classroom layout and design
Interior design that makes use of technology building wide rather than just in the classroom

5. Energy Efficiency (Green School Design)
Use recycled building materials
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
“Daylighting” the school design strategically
Better air quality through purposeful design
Superior acoustics and thermal comfort
Minimize energy demand
Minimize water usage
Use energy-efficient lighting, mechanical systems, and renewable energy sources

6. Energy Efficiency (Green School Design
Solar planning for site and design
Attention to lighting, mechanical systems, plumbing and water systems and electrical systems (a design that complements these new kinds of systems)

7. Sustainability
“Schools are like cities where the city center is like the student center, homes like classrooms, streets like hallways, parks like common areas. Increasingly school cultures will become interdisciplinary, team planned and taught.”
Herman Hertzberger

8. Instructional Flexibility
Buildings designed to accommodate:
Information technology
Teachers’ role change from instructor to mentor/facilitator
Schools less industrial to more personal
Classrooms with more flexible and fluid design

9. Issues Specific to Rossview Elementary
External wall space/footprint/lower profile for cost savings
Possible less masonry
Design incorporating pre-fabricated metal structures
More energy efficiency
Security (internal and external)
Opportunity for environment bid environment
Instructional issues around technology, classroom design that encourages today’s best teaching approaches
Instructional approaches in elementary schools have greatly changed in 20 years
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